Food fads come and go. Some are good -- hello, Cronut! Some are everlasting -- bacon on everything! And some are just WTF -- flavored infused foams? Why, Ferran Adria, why? The latest craze sweeping across the country falls squarely into the last category. Yes, I mean “bone broth.”

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It’s John Tesar’s (rightful) turn back in the spotlight, and it has nothing to do with a restaurant critic. Instead, Tesar announced that he, along with another meaty (get it?) writer, Josh Ozersky, will be writing a cookbook by the name of his Dallas restaurant, Knife.

In our new series Hot On the Burner, we analyze which restaurants and chefs are having their best week ever in the press — and who’s getting burned, and hard. This week, we discuss one of the most “influential restaurants” that everyone can’t stop talking about — Eleven Madison Park.

John Tesar went on a scorched earth Twitter tirade against Dallas Morning News critic Leslie Brenner following a tepid review with a few bright spots, but still one that only scored him 3 out of 5 stars at Knife.

“You know, what’s his name, Andrew Knowlton’s not going to buzz through my restaurant for fifteen minutes and put me on one of those lists of the 50 Best New Restaurants, which to me, is a great accolade, and I would love the attention, but to me it’s bullshit.” Well, this is awkward…

“John Tesar is crying.” Thus opens the second page of John Tesar’s sprawling D Magazine profile from 2011 — the one so click-baitingly titled “John Tesar: The Most Hated Chef in Dallas.” It was generously referenced on his season of Top Chef: Seattle, and is the final piece of his puzzle that we wanted to fit into our lengthy three-part interview with the chef.